Beagle,
We all know that you are involved with a Flying Training School / Club so would you like to tell us just which British built, 300 horsepower, all metal, 360 deg./sec. roll rate, +/- 9g aircraft you are using for training your ab initios.
Neither of the current aircraft are glider derived. Both are built by people who do or did make gliders, one still makes very good gliders, the other hasn`t made one in donkeys years, was always behind the times and usually had someone else design it.
The Grob is perfectly capable of IFR flight with the right instrument fit, as was suggested to the RAF by the manufacturer. Unfortunately, it seems that the RAF knows better and specified all electric instruments which they could have got away with if the a/c were RAF owned but is not acceptible to the CAA. Anyway, it is being put right now and some a/c have already been modified.
When are we going to get away from these archaic engines. Air and fuel cooled, magneto ignition, noisy, polluting (100LL). They`ve had sixty years to refine the design and they still fail.
Mike W